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Total number of records: 3122

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3095
Books and printed items22
Art items3
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2534
Brotherton Collection186
English Literature167
Business Archives53
Feminist Archive North44
Medical Collections12
Leeds Poetry12
Art and Antique Market6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Quaker Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters109
english poetry69
business records48
textile industry46
english literature35
english drama20
english fiction17
commercial correspondence14
diaries11
scrapbooks7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire59
York; Yorkshire32
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding29
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding16
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding14
Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding6
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding6
Yorkshire West Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)5
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor5
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)5
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)5
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Blakeston Family4
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Dorothy Una Phillips3

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Earliest dateCount
From 120054
From 130073
From 140045
From 1500184
From 1600346
From 1700418
From 1800896
From 19001105
From 20001

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Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

1735-1873

Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...

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Archive Collection

Carlton Hill Collection

17th-20th century

The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...

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Archive Collection

CARTULARIUM ACASTRENSE VOLUME 1

1282-1518

A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...

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Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES

19th-20th century

Includes family papers relating to the Crossley family including correspondence, valuations, insurance, wills etc. Papers relating to the Wheelwright Family. Papers relating to Mearclough Mill. Pap...

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Archive Collection

COPY LETTERS FROM RALPH THORESBY TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS

1695-1724

Also includes a list of books, and a copy of the "Answer to Priestcraft" written by Thoresby's friend Richard Thornton (see Ducatus Leodiensis p536).

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Archive Collection

Stone heads index

1960s-1970s

Card index of approximately 1000 individual photographic recordings of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding of Yorkshire. Each recording generally consists of the event date (eg of finding or reco...

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Archive Collection

1 in 4 Collection

c1986 - 1998

The collection contains organisational papers including journals, minute books, correspondence, training information, legal guidelines and associated material. Files also include extensive reference m...

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Archive Collection

Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

1865-1999

Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

1862-1866

Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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